Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-07-15

Mrs. ID. c. Wood is visiting friends
at Benzonia.
Mr.. Loxley and wife of East Sagin-
aw are guests at the Wright House.
l., Clute, one of lonia county pioneers
and ablcst attorneys was in town Tues
day.
Judge Lewis, of M0ntcalm Co. was
in town Tuesday on his way home from
Ithaca.
G. \. Case and wife, of Canada. are
the guests of his sister, Mrs. A. w.
Wright.
Mr. and Mrs. \. W. Wright, return
cl Tuesday evening from n few weeks
visit in Canada.
Subscribe for the RECORD. One
dollar per year for the next 30 days to
new subscribers.
Ike Woodlin. the barber. is now nice
ly located in his new house in the
north part of town.
Apples. warranted to give the con-
sdmcr the collie in three minutes, are
for sale at our groceries.
Real Estate in Alma is very lively.
During the past IS months. o. j. Still
well has sold - houses, mostly on the
contract plan.
Wright X Hooper have bought of J.
NJ. Montigcl, a force pump and attach
ed it to their wind mill, and all they
want now is little breeze and they
have flowing well.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor X Northern
Michigan road last year earned $3.50
POI. of which Si7,lli was profit. 1t
built forty-fye miles of road and open
ed II miles. giving tia line from Toledo
to Mt. Pleasant, III miles.
\ Nh Shafer. iewcler of Alma, Wis
tied our town. Tuesday We have no
resident jcweler, and this is an enter
prise which will he highly appreciated
ny our town people. and wo hope he
will soon be established among us
Ashley i,gw.
l.. r. Goodnow. of Ithaca. state
agent fer the Michigan Hedge Co., To-
Gated at Kalamazoo. made us Il pleas
ant call Tuesday. He Is doing a big
business in this county. See what
some of our best farmers have to say
about it in another column.
The Editor visited Ithaca for the
first time last Saturday. making several
new and pleasant acquaintanceS, a
mong whom were Bro. Smith. OF the
JouHGL 1t is useless to say that he
has banner office. and understands
the business completely, and receives
the entire support and appreciation Of
his business men.
Tuesday was the hottest day of the
season, and Mr.. Scott took pity on the
RECORD force and asked them in TO
partakc of some of his splendid ice
cream. Mr.. Scott is long at the busi-
ness and can dish ice cream in about
the proper shape, so sayeth the force.
Ills quarters are pleasant and he takes
great pains to please his customers.
We are in receipt of copy Of the
Carson City Gdscfte. We supposed it an
Improvement over the so called Bee,
but alas, Bro. Bailey can come nearer
numbering the English language than
any paper in Michigan. lie says Ill
takes chcok to cdy man through this
world" His citizens had better take
up a collection and give him a course
of spelling in the primary department
The Grange Visitor advises its read'
ers not to pay the so royalty claimed
under Il recent decision of the United
States court 10y the owners of the driv,
well patent. Those driven since Jan
%, 1889, are not covered by the patent
as it expired on that date. 1t is likel,
that the state grange will take a hanC
in the fight if an attempt is made tt
collect the royalty. So don't he in ;
hurry to settle if a raid is made in this
locality.
The regents of University have ap
propriatcd $50 900 for building to con
tain the hygienic and physical labora
tories, and 1000 TO furnish apparatus
The departments which fall into tn,
laboratory get II 900 to fix their quar-
ters in the old medical building. Fol
Il dead room and dissecting room So ,00'
was set apart, and Drs. Vaughan
Langslcy and Prescott were made {
committee to arrange for chair OF ny
giene.
Nearly every week the Alma Recor'
devotes about "A half.a column to the II,
puJlicdn We can stand it.-St. Loui
Rcpublcan. Why? Because he alway
has his slop bucket Of lies turned loos
on Alma or some Of its citizens. W
! have never devoted space to the abov